I hate the term “picky bits” That is all

I’ve loved how the privacy pro crowd are upset for meta staff being surveilled by bosses. Yet many meta staff don’t give two hoots about the monitoring of any of us. Maybe we should role swap 🤨

The pros of the current Government crisis is the respite from USA news headlines. Staggering that it’s only a crisis that keeps news domestic 😕

I often criticise the tone of @evanhd.bsky.social interviews, but kudos to his noticeably more measured and probing approach while interviewing Sir Mark Rowley about facial recognition today.

After awhile listening to Angine de Poitrine sends you crazy

💖 She's living her best life 🌿💚💚💖💖💚💖💖💚💚🌿

We need to overwhelm the BBC with complaints about this. This is the most egregious breach of their own impartiality guidelines I can remember. They’re no longer even trying to hide it. www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp...

OMFG I had to go and check that this ACTUALLY happened. Since when does the BBC ever do chyrons with a political party's branding, rather than their own? Not to mention this is during a pre-election campaign purdah. (h/t @iainsol.bsky.social)

Am I alone in finding Mary Beard insufferable?

I’ve been saving this. My two favourite stout breweries collabing with ginger! Holy shit it’s phenomenal, full of ginger, cakey, and treacly. Tremendous 🥰 #BskyBeers cheers

Sad crisp

The making of Elton John Mouse’s wig was a lot like Brer Rabbit and the tar baby.

A Newly Discovered Recording Lets You Hear Delta Blues Legend Robert Johnson in Stunning Clarity

None other than Grotbags from Emu's World made some surprisingly fantastic funk/soul records back in the day... Watch episode 7 of PantoSplaining here: youtu.be/KCh88tSovgU?...

Nope! Fuck this

Unbelievable beer from Parisian brewery Fauve. Wonderfully round, deep flavour. Packs an insane punch. Happy Friday. Cheers #BskyBeer

Is this JD Vance?

😢 the greatest longitudinal study and incredible TV

Wooohooo now at Paname - hazy IPA, schwartzbier and an orange pear and vanilla sour !!! 🥰 #Bskybeer

At L’Atlante in Paris drinking a smashing Tarte Tatin sour collab with Vault City - tres bien #bskybeer

Strawberry Switchblade and Noseybonk walked so Angine de Poitrine could run.

The findings of our new report on the use of ad-based geolocation surveillance tech in Europe raise the question: Can surveillance vendors lawfully buy or otherwise obtain billions of location records tied to device identifiers from consumer apps installed on phones under the GDPR? I doubt it: 🧵

The company's latest controversial product "will harm vulnerable people while further imperiling our democracy."

Brussel sprouts that taste like wasabi are heavenly

Delighted for all my Hungarian friends and family. Let’s hope this change stays positive.

Top charity shop find today

I’m really enjoying this. Woodbridge is such a clear and engaging writer. It’s generating lots of thoughts I hope one day to articulate

The Times seem infatuated with this guy. Why? None of this is national news, it’s local press news at best.

I missed this from @phineas.bsky.social when it originally came out but it sure feels relevant at the moment. Also, you can buy this as a print from the artist here: www.inprnt.com/gallery/phin...

My 25 year losing streak has collapsed. I am maximus!

What could they possibly do to top this moment in their lives? Link: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTkDwwh5f/

In the same lane:

Mmmm sardines and peanut butter

A lot has happened this week, news wise, but this has pushed me over the edge. And its only Thursday! www.theguardian.com/food/2026/ap...

Sat in a local craft beer place working g as a change of scene. There are three fellas having a conversation, each of them are sat in different corners of the bar just yelling back and forth. None of them have thought to sit with the other 🤷🏻‍♀️

How your data is powering Trump’s surveillance state

Shireen Al-Kurdi, a 36-year-old displaced mother of five, crochets affordable dolls for Gazan children. “Every child in every tent in Gaza has the right to have a doll and the right to play,” she said.

This is catastrophic.

FFS Netanyahu FFS!

Art of the Deal!

What was meant to be a stroll turned into 15 miles

The UK is seeking to grant ministers wide-ranging new powers to rewrite significant portions of the Online Safety Act through amendments tucked into two unrelated bills, a move experts say could bypass normal parliamentary scrutiny, reports Tech Policy Press UK fellow Jade-Ruyu Yan.

Wednesday

We asked the White House if the president is mulling the use of nuclear weapons. Six minutes later, the White House press office declined to rule out the use of nuclear weapons. Instead, an unnamed official wrote, “We refer you to the President’s TRUTH on this inquiry.

posting this 'ol thing again for no reason

One of the top headlines of the day.

The problem with potential Armageddon while you’re perimenopausal is you don’t know if your raging anger and tears are the result of hormones or full on despair at the lunatic spaffing away about causing the end of civilisation.

Goddamn it if I wasn’t going to drink this week, but if Armageddon is happening it’s probably a good time to crack open a beer, right?